Academics and students in the UK will soon be able to make better use of data through artificial intelligence and deep learning in their research, thanks to a new National Research Facility for the physical sciences communities.

Southampton Professor Stephen Holgate has been awarded the President’s Medal by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) for his personal contribution to public health, particularly air quality, over many decades. He is also recognised for his exceptional service to the RCP.

The passing of Marvel Comics pioneer Stan Lee has brought tributes from around the world for a man who is credited with co-creating some of the most iconic comic book characters of the last 60 years including Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, Iron Man and Thor.

Southampton researcher, Dr Michael Head, is calling for immediate action to tackle pneumonia after a new report named the condition as the leading infections disease killer in the world, claiming an estimated 2.6 million lives in 2017.

Southampton’s growing reputation as a city of culture and creativity has received a major boost with the signing of a new agreement between the University of Southampton and Arts Council England (ACE).

A psychologist at the University of Southampton is reaching out to people in the local community who have, or think they may have, a tic disorder or tourette syndrome to take part in much needed research into these conditions.

The comments made on Twitter by the Students’ Union President regarding the Rothenstein Mural are not shared by the University of Southampton and do not represent the views of the University community.

Following three years of highly-advanced technological mapping of the Black Sea floor, an international team scientists led by experts from the University of Southampton have confirmed that a shipwreck lying intact has been officially radiocarbon dates back to 400BC.

UNESCO World Heritage sites in the Mediterranean such as Venice, the Piazza del Duomo, Pisa and the Medieval City of Rhodes are under threat of coastal erosion and flooding due to rising sea levels, a study published in Nature magazine reports this week.

Pianist, composer, broadcaster and University of Southampton professor David Owen Norris will perform live for the Wellington Lecture 2018 – playing and speaking about music associated with Arthur Wellesley, the 1st Duke of Wellington.

The University of Southampton has been awarded funding for 80 new PhD studentships over the next five years as leader of the INSPIRE Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP), one of 17 announced by the UK’s Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).

Whale sharks, the world’s largest fish, roam less than previously thought and need greater protection from local and regional threats to ensure the long-term conservation of this globally endangered species, according to a new study.

A new study in the British Journal of Criminology, published by Oxford University Press and supported by University of Southampton research, indicates that the different political periods in which people ‘came of age’ has an important influence on their perception of crime, even decades later.

A national consortium of universities – including the University of Southampton – has been awarded £5 million to champion and maintain the UK’s leading position in the field of offshore renewable energy (ORE).

A University of Southampton researcher has carried out a major study aimed at assessing the relationship between the most common neurodevelopment disorder, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and the most chronic condition in children, asthma.

For Jon Sopel, the opportunity of leading graduation ceremonies at the University of Southampton is a welcome distraction from the White House ‘bubble’ he’s become used to in recent years as the BBC’s North America Editor based in Washington, DC.

The University of Southampton is joining with a number of other leading aerospace universities in the UK as part of a national consortium to provide the global aerospace community with a centralised point of engagement to the UK’s top university aerospace research capabilities.

Research led by scientists from the Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit (MRC LEU) at the University of Southampton has shown that a higher income and being married reduces the risk of experiencing a broken bone in old age.

A new economic impact assessment of the University of Southampton shows that it benefits the regional Hampshire economy to the tune of £1.3bn annually and the city of Southampton specifically by £0.9bn. On a national scale it contributes £2.5bn to the economy.

Poor protein in a mother’s diet in early pregnancy, around the time of conception, can have a lasting effect on brain development, according to research recently published by University of Southampton academics.

A new study by Canadian, UK and US researchers has found that climate conditions shifted to become wetter and warmer around 15,000 years ago and contributed to the first human migration between Asia and North America.

Southampton Professor Tim Leighton has raised serious doubts of sound being used to harm embassy staff in Cuba and China in recent months where diplomatic personnel claimed they’d suffered health problems after being exposed to some sort of ‘sonic weapon’.

Many patients receiving chemotherapy following surgery for bowel cancer may only need three months treatment rather than the six months currently given, new research published in Lancet Oncology has shown.

Pioneering early people who lived at the end of the last ice age actually carried on with life as usual despite plummeting temperatures, according to research focused at a world-famous archaeological site in North Yorkshire suggests.

A team of biologists from the University of Florida, working with colleagues from the University of Southampton, Princeton University and the Estonian University of Life Sciences have analysed forest inventories of trees in the eastern United States from the 1980s to 2000s. The team looked specifically at forest biomass, tree species composition, and climate variability.

Research led by the University of Southampton is helping governments in low-income countries strengthen their capacity to build and use population maps, to plan for the future and respond to emergencies.

A new study led by the University of Southampton has revealed that claims of a crisis in the accuracy of election polling are false and that there is no evidence to suggest that poll errors have increased over time.

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Integral space observatory has witnessed a rare event: the moment that winds emitted by a swollen red giant star revived its slow-spinning companion, the core of a dead star, bringing it back to life in a flash of X-rays.

Women remain dramatically unrepresented in the British film industry, according to a major new study which shows there has been little change in the number of female directors or cinematographers in the past decade.

Commitment, community and collaboration are all words used to describe University of Southampton student midwife Lucy Price, one of five finalists for the 2018 Pregnacare Award for UK Student Midwife of the Year.

The prospects – and consequences – of ageing are of concern to us all, especially when considering the likelihood of developing wrinkles. They are not only a hallmark of ageing but also play a fundamental role in how we physically interact with many products and devices, from moisturiser cream and make up to razor and the fabrics of our clothes.

An international team of astronomers led by the University of Southampton has confirmed the discovery of the most distant supernova ever detected – a huge cosmic explosion that took place 10.5 billion years ago, or three-quarters the age of the Universe itself.

Artificial intelligence expert Dr Sarvapali (Gopal) Ramchurn from the University of Southampton has been awarded a grant from the AXA Research Fund, becoming only the second UK-based academic to ever be supported by the initiative in the field of Responsible Artificial Intelligence.

Researchers at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, will contribute to the analysis of data from 100,000 men and women, evaluating how the size, shape and structure of bones and joints leads to the development of common age-related diseases such as osteoarthritis and osteoporosis.

The ESRC Centre for Population Change (CPC) at the University of Southampton has been awarded a share of £6.9m which will allow eight established centres in the UK to continue their social science research.

The successful launch of the new rocket, the Falcon Heavy, by SpaceX from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida into a Mars orbit around the Sun, has captured the world’s imagination and attention mainly because of its power but also because of its payload.

People who have a healthier diet throughout their adult lives are more likely to be stronger and fitter in older age than those who don’t, according to a new study led by the University of Southampton.

Experts from industry and academia have unveiled ambitious new proposals as part of a major review for how Government, academia and industry can work together to grow the UK’s burgeoning Artificial Intelligence (AI) industry and increase use of AI right across the economy.

Scientists have directly detected gravitational waves — ripples in space and time — in addition to light from the spectacular collision of two neutron stars. This marks the first time that a cosmic event has been viewed in both gravitational waves and light.

The University of Southampton has been named as one of seven UK universities that will lead pioneering research into the next generation of battery technology as part of a new £65m national institution.

Mathematical Sciences at the University of Southampton is celebrating the award of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics to three US scientists for their leading role in the development of gravitational wave theory and experimentation.

University of Southampton President and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Christopher Snowden, has paid tribute to Dame Helen Alexander following the announcement of her death. Dame Helen, who was 60, had been Chancellor of the University since 2011.

An international team of scientists has found evidence suggesting the dehydration of minerals deep below the ocean floor influenced the severity of the Sumatra earthquake, which took place on December 26, 2004.

On 23 May 2007 at the summit of Mount Everest a small team of exhausted Southampton doctors and scientists jabbed their own femoral arteries to take blood samples, sparking a decade of ground-breaking discoveries of how low oxygen levels affect the body.

“We are leading the only watercress breeding programme, globally, developing new watercress that has improved anti-cancer properties with less impact on the environment” - Professor Gail Taylor, research leader in Plant and Sustainability Science

Patients who take capecitabine after surgery for bile duct cancer live for almost a year and a half longer than those not given the drug, according to the results of a Cancer Research UK funded trial, led by the University of Southampton.